Bamboo canes

Building materials and products carry environmental costs that you may not have considered. The information in the panels on the facing page will help you start to make more environmentally sound choices. Unfortunately, products rarely fulfill all the criteria that we would wish them to, so there will have to be compromise somewhere along the line. For example, although natural stone is a nonrenewable resource, it is very durable, and should last for many generations. Bamboo canes are a sustainable product, but may have traveled far. Aim to strike a balance. 

Store-bought bamboo canes may have traveled halfway around the world, so growing your own, for plant supports, light structures, and screens, is an environmentally friendly alternative. The canes must be dried slowly, for three to six months. Lash them together with cord. They can also be drilled, but do not nail them or they will split. 

In order to produce square bamboo canes for construction, the young culms may be placed inside a square tube. As the plant grows, the culm will fill the available space, forming a long cane that has a square cross-section. The tubes must be adjusted as the fast-growing plant matures, and it is removed after the culm has reached the desired size. 

The plant material can be used as herbal material, once dried, e.g. marijuana. Low-quality products, which contain stalks, seeds, leaves and flowering tops, may be compressed into blocks (West African and Caribbean material), it may occur as loose herbal material (from Central and Southern Africa), or it may be rolled into a so-called Com Bob , wrapped in vegetable fibre (again from Central and Southern Africa). Higher-quahty materials, composed of fruiting tops and flowers alone, may also be encountered. If tied around bamboo sticks, this material is known as Buddha Sticks or Thai Sticks , and arises from South-East Asia. A central bamboo cane is used, around which up to 2 g of herbal material can be tied. The materials can be seized in bundles of up to 20 sticks. An African equivalent is to wrap the material in a small roll of brown paper such rolls frequently contain less than 0.5 g of cannabis per roll. Sieved products may also be encountered. This process removes the stems and the leaves, producing Kif, a material derived from North Africa, for example, from Morocco. 

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Borneo Tallow.—The kernels of several species of Hopea (or Dipterocarpus), which flourish in the Malayan Archipelago, yield a fat known locally as Tangawang fat. This fat is moulded (by means of bamboo canes) into the form of rolls about 3 inches thick, and exported to Europe as Borneo Tallow. 

Maize is also known as com in mai English speaking countries. They are widely used for many purposes like starch products, food, and fodder uses. Maize stems almost resemble bamboo canes and the intemodes can reach 20-30 cm, the stems are erect conventionally 2-3 m in height with mai nodes casting off flag-leaves at ev-eiy node. The top producing countries are United States of America, China, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, India, and other European countries. 

Dendroealamus ip. (bimboo) bamboo cane furniture leef lawn cutHngs... 

Homestead agroforestry system provides nearly 50% cash flow to the rural poor (Ahmed 1999). Collectively, homestead agroforestry production system contributes about 70% fruit, 40% vegetable, 70% timber, and 90% firewood and bamboo requirement of Bangladesh (Miah and Ahmed 2003). In addition, the homestead plantations are recognized repositories of non-timber products such as medicinal and aromatic plants, ornamentals, bamboos, khair, lac, honey, cane, murta plants, and grasses. 

Paper products (newsprint, tissue, packaging, etc.) are made from pulps that consist of natural fibers derived from vascular plants such as trees, sugar cane, bamboo, and grass. The vascular fiber walls are composed of bundles of cellulose polymeric filaments. This long, linear glucose polymer is what paper is made from. The polymer has the structure shown in Scheme 8.18. 

In February 2006, Japan s Mitsubishi Motors announced that it is to use the biopolymer, polybutylene succinate (PBS), in the interior of its new mini-car launched next year. In conjunction with Aichi Industrial Technology Institute, it has developed a material that uses PBS combined with bamboo fibre. PBS is composed of succinic acid, which is derived from fermented corn or cane sugar, and 1,4-butanediol. Bamboo grows quickly and is seen by Mitsubishi as a sustainable resource. In lifecycle tests, the PBS-bamboo fibre composite achieves a 50% cut in carbon dioxide emissions compared with polypropylene. Volatile organic compound levels are also drastically reduced, by roughly 85%, over processed wood hardboards. 

Camauba, candelilla, rice bran, and fruit ( iple, bamboo, sugar, cane, citrus) waxes, jojoba oil Wood rosin, tree lacs, citms terpenes, gum lacs Camphor, mint and citrus fruit essential oils Liquorice... 

Multiple odiers Apple, bamboo, sugar cane, citrus fruit, etc. alcohols (C26-C30) Palmitic acid triacylglycerols Variable (hydrocarbons, wax esters)... 

The genera in the family of Poaceae (Table 1) include bamboo, barley, cane, fescue, lawn grass, oats, pappus, and rice. 

Arrhenatherum (oat grass) Arthraxon (carp grass) Arthrostylidium (climbing bamboo) Arundinaria (cane)... 

Hemicelluloses from bamboo,157,162-169 sugar-cane bagasse,170 rice... 

Cyanoglycosides such as amygdalin are present in edible plants such as almonds, pits from stone fruits (e.g., apricots, peaches, plums, cherries), sorghum, cassava, soybeans, spinach, lima beans, sweet potatoes, maize, millet, sugar cane, and bamboo shoots. 

Ninety-nine percent of all papers are produced from cellulose fibers. Ninety-nine percent of the cellulose papers, in turn, are made from wood chips. The remaining paper is made from straw, cotton, linen, bamboo, and sugar canes. Papyrus, which actually gave paper its name, is no longer used by paper manufacturers. 

Grasses and reeds The fibres come from the stem of plants, such as bamboo or sugar cane. 

Bamboo Tile. A term used in Africa and Asia for Spanish tile (q.v.) on account of their resemblance, when placed in position, to a roof of split bamboo. Bamboo Ware. A bamboo-like type of CANE WARE (q.v.), somewhat dark in colour, first made by Josiah Wedgwood in 1770. 

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